Ian Morris Quotes
We have already broken the link between food production and population. This will soon be complete.
From a technical and production point of view, there is no practical limit to population size that is imposed by food production. We can produce sufficient food for the world even if population increases dramatically. None the less, even today we have some starvation and much malnutrition problems. These however are political, economic and tend to be distributional. We can produce the food. Morris does NOT advocate large population growth. Although food need not be a problem with an expanding population, job availability, medical care, energy, land, natural resources, ethnic hatred, migration, violence, and other problems are produced by population growth.
Ian Morris, Historian & Archaeologist, Presentation, C-SPAN Book TV, March 31, 2013
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Often referred to as “Father of the Green Revolution” for his contributions to food growing throughout the world
Johnson insisted that he would not provide food to ease India’s famine until the nation adopted a family planning program including education about all methods of birth control and making available devices such as condoms to India’s poor
Hoover headed the American Food agency early in his career. In a sense, he was right. Without American Food, the Allies in Europe woul;d have collapsed, and after the war, Amerocan feed kept the peace.
The president was right. There is enough food to go around. The problem however is logistical, economic, and political. Some countries use food as a weapon to keep their own people under control. The major problem is the distribution of the food. It has to be transported from where it is gown to where it should be consumed. Much food in the third world rots because the transportation system cannot move the food efficiently enough. Even when food is donated to nations, the free or cheap food undercuts the local farmers who go out of business and there is even less food the following year.
While this was somewhat hyperbolic at the time, it became true during the century.
Ian Matthew Morris is a British archaeologist, historian, and academic. He is currently Willard Professor of Classics at Stanford University.
